Rains LIVE: Bengal, Odisha on high alert for heavy rains as low-pressure system forms over Bay of Bengal

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Kolkata recorded unprecedented rainfall starring to terrible waterlogging successful astir parts of the city, which led to a standstill and affected regular commuters lives. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI

The IMD has forecast airy to mean rainfall astatine galore places successful the confederate portion of West Bengal implicit the adjacent 7 days, owing to a low-pressure strategy formed implicit the Bay of Bengal connected Thursday (September 25, 2025), raising apprehension astir a bedewed Durga Puja festival that commences connected September 28.

The debased unit country is apt to ore into a slump and thereafter transverse the southbound Odisha-Andhra Pradesh coasts connected Saturday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

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A low-pressure strategy has developed implicit the Bay of Bengal owed to which respective parts of Maharashtra are apt to acquisition cloudy upwind and accrued rainfall betwixt September 26 and 28, a authorities connection said. The southwest monsoon is not expected to retreat from the authorities earlier October 5, said the statement.

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The Odisha authorities besides enactment 18 districts connected precocious alert aft the IMD predicted dense rainfall successful the State with a low-pressure country forming implicit the Bay of Bengal. The strategy is apt to origin highly dense rainfall successful Koraput and Malkangiri districts, portion different parts of southbound Odisha are besides apt to acquisition dense showers.

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The Calcutta High Court connected Thursday (September 25, 2025) sought a study from the West Bengal government, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) connected the rainfall successful the metropolis connected Tuesday (September 23) morning, which resulted successful aggregate deaths.
A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, of Acting Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Apurba Singh Roy, directed the CESC to taxable a study connected the incidents of electrocution.
The Bench directed the KMC to record a study connected what steps it has taken regarding the city’s drainage system, and the State authorities was directed to taxable a study connected the compensation to the kin of deceased.
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